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The stunning Milky Way above the antennas at the ALMA Observatory.
More information: www.eso.org/public/images/uhd_yuri_alma_ant_cc/
Credit:
ESO/Y.Beletsky
Styrian Pumpkins (green with yellow stripes), Hokkaido Pumpkins (orange ones), the rest are ornamentals. expired uv id film 10-2009 shot 14/03/2022.
I sort of was imagining a set of pyramids here. I know it seems sort of odd but, for me, the shapes of these gems sort of lend themselves to it.
Anyhow, I wanted really vibrant colors here and I wanted a few shadows so I doubled up my lights on one side and put a lower-level light on the other so that I wasn't shooting into pure darkness.
By the way, you guys may want to know that I only have three lights. Three. One more than two.
Crocs beach wear, Hunters Wellington boot, Dr Martens 1460 Pascal and Converse Hi-Top, the Red attack..
Have you ever driven down a long country road and saw something that just made you do a double, triple, quadruple take, compelling you to turn the car around, go a few miles off your path, just to say... "what. am. I. looking. at.?"
This happened on my way back from New Mexico last week. I saw these weird "sculptures" on the plain; whipped by wind, and in the middle of essentially, nowhere. I had to go closer to see. And still could not figure out what these were. I did take note that this would be a fabulous dark-sky location with crazy foregounds.
Turns out, it's a failed (or fraudulent) solar energy experiment. So weird! www.deseret.com/2018/6/22/20647633/utah-solar-lens-scheme...
"Autumn arrives, array'd in splendid mein;
Vines, cluster'd full, add to the beauteous scene,
And fruit-trees cloth'd profusely laden, nod,
Complaint bowing to the fertile sod."
― Farmer's Almanac, 1818
This is a zoom blur of a patch of wild flowers, though some may say weeds that I shot in the ditch beside my driveway. I could have cut them down for a cleaner look but I prefer to have some wild plants to attract butterflies and other assorted insects, besides I love the wonderful array of colours and shapes.
The cognoscenti will recognise these lines as those of a Batch II Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy.
This is HMS Boxer, F92, and the image was taken by a member of the Fleet Photographic Unit, Portsmouth, at sea in the English Channel in May 1986. The Royal Navy holds the copyright for this image, which I acquired whilst serving aboard her. The Batch IIs were stretched versions of the Batch I Type 22s, Boxer being the first of six built.
A major improvement from the originals was the addition of a new Computer Assisted Command System (CACS-1), replacing the CAAIS fitted to the Batch Is.This could track up to 500 targets, including those detected by the ship's passive towed array and ESM.
However, the most significant change in these anti-submarine frigates was a much more sophisticated electronic warfare system, particularly the Classic Outboard system for the intercept of Soviet tactical naval communications. These very sophisticated and specialised versions of the Type 22 were apparently specifically approved by Prime Minister James Callaghan. The larger hull also improved sea keeping. However, the batch apparently never achieved the anticipated quietness for fully-effective use of their towed arrays, reportedly due to a failure to isolate the diesel generators from the hull.
Post-Cold War, their specialised nature, large crew size and operating costs meant the Royal Navy could not afford to keep them running. And there was very little interest from anywhere else. In 1999, Boxer was decommissioned. She was used as a target in 2004.
Scanned from a print. The map location is arbitrary.
Very Large Array (VLA) near Socorro, New Mexico. Visit during a storm created some interesting photographs.
Detroit Edison 203 is draped in colorful Christmas lights once again on a foggy Christmas Eve. 203 was built by Baldwin in 1923, first working at Detroit Edison's Delray plant. It was transferred to Conners Creek and then finally Marysville in 1949. It shuffled coal cars around the Mighty Marysville until 1958 when it was donated to the city's park. Since then its mysteriously lost its headlight and numberplate on the smokebox, but nonetheless its kept up appearances with a repaint back in 2017. The Boy Scouts of America sponsor the locomotive's festive decor each year as it sits amongst the park's colorful array of lights.
Taken @ private property on Cedar Creek Township maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Array/90/9/22
I summoned you, please come to me
Don't bury thoughts that you really want
I fill you up, drink from my cup
Within me lies what you really want
Come, lay me down
'Cause you know this
'Cause you know this sound
In the middle of the night, in the middle of the night
Just call my name, I'm yours to tame
In the middle of the night, in the middle of the night
I'm wide awake, I crave your taste
All night long 'til morning comes
I'm getting what is mine, you gon' get yours, oh
In the middle of the night, in the middle of the night, oh